• NotAGamer@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This would be funny if Donald Trump didn’t actually say that he should be the Pope.

  • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I kinda a feel bad for the last pope. After his death he might have imagined people talking about his work and deeds. Instead, asshats are using AI to photoshop pope hats on the heads of idiots.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    IDK why everyone is shitting on Katy Perry and frankly, I feel vindicated for shitting on her since I knew she was a cunt.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Probably because she payed to be dead weight on the dick rocket that was marketed as the first all female space missions.
      In reality Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space and because she flew solo it was also the first all female space mission.

  • dan69@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I knew it at some point the cross industry relevance has some semblance to any job position!

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t understand the Katy Perry hate. William Shatner took the same space trip and wasn’t dumped on.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      William Shatner was very much dumped on. Not by us, but by Mister Proper himself.

      Shatner: “It was such a humbling experience, I just…”
      Bezos:"Shut up man. Just pop some champagne and act like you’re celebrating with these cheap hookers I hired for you. "
      Hooker:“WOOoOooOo!!!”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      she declared herself an astronaut… much in the same way you become a pilot after riding on a commercial jet….
      there were few dumb things, but this is definitely referring to that.

      • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        That’s stupid though. Why the fuck does some weird nerds try to gatekeep the title “astronaut”? Katy Perry’s role on the flight was about equal to Yuri Gagarin in terms of controlling the ship.

        Anyways, it’s just a publicity stunt by the ultra rich marketing it as feminist achievement, that’s what you should be shitting on

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.

          Let’s not mix the people who saw colleagues die and put their own lives on the line for science with the human billboard receiving money to advertise a rich fuck’s commercial vanity project that’s already been deemed safe (in no small parts due to it being tested by actual astronauts beforehand).

        • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          because words mean things. For example, you’re not an engineer nor are you engineering if you cut a straw shorter to fit your cup better.

          Yuri Gagarin was a highly accomplished person, in the field, and the first person in space

          Katy Perry didn’t even go to space, they didn’t leave the atmosphere… they didn’t orbit, they only experienced weightlessness from falling….

          and more importantly, while our government is erasing records of actual women astronauts who spent days and months in orbit…
          extremely talented and educated women who risked their lives… purging those records and calling it DEI, it’s extremely insulting to pretend like Katy Perry should be an inspiration for women as a woman astronaut….

          she’s a talented musician… i mean, i don’t like her music… but she should be inspiring with that. She’s not an astronaut because she took the hundredth ride on an autopilot near-space tourist ship for 11 minutes….

          btw, this is the information age… nerds rule the world… everything you’ve ever touched has been made by nerds and you’ll just be dependent on nerds’ creations for the rest of your life.

          nerd is no longer an insult. it’s a badge of honor.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It wasn’t the trip itself thats particularly viewed as problematic, it was the atrociously patronizing marketing surrounding it and that Katy Perry is just a generally vile person. Nobody is begrudging Amanda Nguyen or Aisha Bowe being along on this trip, they’ve dedicated their lives to the celebration of science and supporting the work of legitimate astronauts. (and arguably so has Shatner, though he’s not exactly a man of flawless character…)